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Baby corn. A bowl of cooked baby corn. Baby corn still in the husk. A stir fry of a mixture of vegetables including baby corn. Baby corn (also known as young corn, cornlettes or baby sweetcorn) is a cereal grain taken from corn (maize) harvested early while the stalks are still small and immature. It typically is eaten whole—including the cob ...
Centaurea cyanus is an annual plant growing to 20–100 centimetres (8–39 in) tall, with grey-green branched stems. The leaves are lanceolate and 3–10 cm (1–4 in) long. [4] The flowers are most commonly an intense blue colour and arranged in flowerheads (capitula) of 1.5–3 cm diameter, with a ring of a few large, spreading ray florets ...
Maize / meɪz / ( Zea mays ), also known as corn in North American and Australian English, is a tall stout grass that produces cereal grain. It was domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 9,000 years ago from wild teosinte. Native Americans planted it alongside beans and squashes in the Three Sisters polyculture.
Corncob. A corncob with attached corn kernels. A corncob, also called corn cob, cob of corn, or corn on the cob, is the central core of an ear of maize (also known as corn). It is the part of the ear on which the kernels grow. The ear is also considered a "cob" or "pole" but it is not fully a "pole" until the ear is shucked, or removed from the ...
Multicolored varieties are usually at their sweetest when the mature color just starts to "blush" on the kernels. Hookers, 70 days (open pollinated, white turning blue at maturity) Triple Play, 70 days (open pollinated, white-yellow bicolor turning partially blue at maturity) Painted Hill, 75 days (open pollinated, mostly white turning various ...
Sweet corn ( Zea mays convar. saccharata var. rugosa ), [1] also called sweetcorn, sugar corn and pole corn, is a variety of corn grown for human consumption with a high sugar content. Sweet corn is the result of a naturally occurring recessive mutation in the genes which control conversion of sugar to starch inside the endosperm of the corn ...
Valerianella locusta illustration by Thomé (1885) showing the plant, flower, and seed. Valeriana locusta, [1] commonly called mâche, cornsalad, or lamb's lettuce, a small, herbaceous, annual flowering plant in the honeysuckle family Caprifoliaceae. It is native to Europe, western Asia and north Africa, where it is eaten as a leaf vegetable.
Sorghum is the world's fifth-most important cereal crop after rice, wheat, maize, and barley. Sorghum is typically an annual, but some cultivars are perennial. It grows in clumps that may reach over 4 metres (13 ft) high. The grain is small, 2 to 4 millimetres (0.079 to 0.157 in) in diameter. Sweet sorghums are cultivars primarily grown for ...